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<span id="prop_tgt:AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES"></span><h1>AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES<a class="headerlink" href="#automoc-macro-names" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>A <a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-language.7.html#cmake-language-lists"><span class="std std-ref">semicolon-separated list</span></a> list of macro names used by
<span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOMOC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOMOC.html#prop_tgt:AUTOMOC" title="AUTOMOC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOMOC</span></code></a> to determine if a C++ file needs to be processed by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">moc</span></code>.</p>
<p>This property is only used if the <span class="target" id="index-1-prop_tgt:AUTOMOC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOMOC.html#prop_tgt:AUTOMOC" title="AUTOMOC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOMOC</span></code></a> property is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ON</span></code>
for this target.</p>
<p>When running <span class="target" id="index-2-prop_tgt:AUTOMOC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="AUTOMOC.html#prop_tgt:AUTOMOC" title="AUTOMOC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOMOC</span></code></a>, CMake searches for the strings listed in
<span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES"></span><a class="reference internal" href="#prop_tgt:AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES" title="AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES</span></code></a> in C++ source and header files.
If any of the strings is found</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>as the first non space string on a new line or</p></li>
<li><p>as the first non space string after a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">{</span></code> on a new line,</p></li>
</ul>
<p>then the file will be processed by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">moc</span></code>.</p>
<p>By default <span class="target" id="index-1-prop_tgt:AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES"></span><a class="reference internal" href="#prop_tgt:AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES" title="AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES</span></code></a> is initialized from
<span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES.html#variable:CMAKE_AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES" title="CMAKE_AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>See the <span class="target" id="index-0-manual:cmake-qt(7)"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-qt.7.html#manual:cmake-qt(7)" title="cmake-qt(7)"><code class="xref cmake cmake-manual docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake-qt(7)</span></code></a> manual for more information on using CMake
with Qt.</p>
<div class="section" id="example">
<h2>Example<a class="headerlink" href="#example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>In this case the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Q_OBJECT</span></code> macro is hidden inside another macro
called <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CUSTOM_MACRO</span></code>.  To let CMake know that source files that contain
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CUSTOM_MACRO</span></code> need to be <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">moc</span></code> processed, we call:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>set_property(TARGET tgt APPEND PROPERTY AUTOMOC_MACRO_NAMES &quot;CUSTOM_MACRO&quot;)
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